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Thanks for The Video but I was wondering if someone could help me out. I want to study opera singing and I have singing lessons now but I still don’t really know what I am. The majority of the people I asked say mezzo whereas one says alto. I’m not a professional musician but testing my voice is at my lowest is B2/C3 and my highest kinda a C6 but very badly. I hope I wrote down the right notes😅 Any ideas?

Oh thank you so much, I've been looking so hard to find a solid assessment of what voice type I am. I sing perfectly in Marylin Monroe's range, but they were saying she was C4-F6 for some reason? I was just barking up the wrong tree, I fit the bill for the Lyric Mezzo-Soprano 🥰

Listening to Marilyn Horne as Azuzena doing the trilles, one realizes that Horne is a mezzo assoluta!

Just a quick correction: By definition there are no lyric contralto voices within the official fach system. Neither are there coloratura contraltos. And even whether or not "coloratura mezzo-soprano" is a thing is debatable.

Thank you for comparing the voices with the SAME SONG. That helps a lot

"It's a new style of saying: basso-profondo, basso-cantabile, basso-baritono ... soprano-leggiero, leggiero-spinto, leggiero-I-don't-know-what. It's SOPRANO. Basta! (Maria Callas, ruclips.net/video/ZVUsVSBVXxQ/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/pYg2sCzuWGY/видео.html)

Kathleen Ferrier can sing but I find her deeply boring (subjective, I know). Dame Clara Butt is great - as for the others...

So many of the singers here are terrible. A few who could sing are Dame Clara Butt, Shirley Verett, early Maria Callas, I might have missed a few.

What are your thoughts on those who may apply these types to non-classical voices?

Good Lord Yma Sumac is from another dimension 😮. The talent is astounding 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🔥🔥🔥

This is NOT the famous funeral march.

this was cool until Ponselle and Boninsegna exist. HAHAHAHA

merci pour ce panorama aussi complet que passionnant !

Bartoli is a spinto soprano with trained agility of a coloratura and sold as a mezzo to spark debate. There i've said it. Dont hate me 😂

May you try to do dudes one day?

:')

Had Maria Callas coloratura?

Where are the Orientals E.g. Sumi Jo..

OMG! You highlighted all my favourite voices.Fantastic renditions of all the greats.Thanks a million for your most enlightening and enjoyable program 🎊 🎉🎉

bro doesn't know what tessitura stands for 🤡

This is really awesome, thank you for all the hard work that went into this video!

The Bartoli 'debate' (maybe 'grey area' is a better term) for me is like Mariah Carey is to pop music. To me both are at their core mezzo-sopranos because they sound so smooth and rich in their lower registers but they can also have a great higher range.

I think Marilyn Horne is a TRUE coloratura mezzo, Bartoli is definitely a mezzo, but with some kind of Zwichenfach-abilities

te faltaron los contratenores y sopranistas son fantasticos y van desde contraltos asta coloratura como dimass oooojjjoooo😅

Was honestly on the “Bartoli is a soprano” train until you mentioned the Dugazon possibility. I honestly think after hearing those clips that Dugazon is more likely considering how her middle notes and lower notes sound a little more effortless in comparison to a true soprano? And while timbre usually isn’t something I measure with, she most definitely is richer in tone than one would expect for a typical coloratura soprano (even in her higher notes she tends to carry her vocal weight)

O mais legal de tudo é o dedinho da Lily Pons 👌

Bartoli is classified as a coloratura mezzo-soprano

This video is great, thank you for all the examples and the graph!

В качестве уникального голоса вы явно упустили Астрид Варнай. Традиционно её относят к вагнеровскому сопрано, но она также шикарна в репертуаре драматического меццо-сопрано и у неё даже были ноты контральто во всей мощи и объёме.

А Джесси Норман по тембру ближе к фальконе, хотя по мне так фальконе это хорошо развитое меццо.

Дизлайк вам только за то, что отнесли Гену Димитрову к обычному драматическому сопрано. По мощи и громкости голоса она превосходила ту же Биргит Нильссон. Да, она не пела Вагнера, но ведь дело не в репертуаре, а в характеристиках голоса.

I really can't agree with Damrau being a lyric coloratura. Her voice isn't light AT ALL, it's quite large and powerful which makes her agility all the more impressive. I've always considered her a dramatic coloratura. I'd also put Pons in the sfogato area. She could do the same stuff as Robin could, and just as easily. They had very similar tones as well.

0:54 can somebody tell me what clip is that from?

I'm sure that Cecilia Bartoli is not a mezzo-soprano, because she reaches notes that no true mezzo-soprano would reach even if he trained hard every day, like: E♭6,(sustained for three and a half seconds) E6 , F6, F♯6. ruclips.net/video/myfj2dvAuRU/видео.html&feature=share8 ruclips.net/video/3zUD86il4iA/видео.html&feature=share8 A mezzo-soprano can reach a maximum of C6 and with many harmonics. Even ordinary sopranos can't reach it, as they are too high, because they are leggero soprano notes, even if a heavier soprano could reach this high pitches, they would sound more darker. She sang light soprano roles on stage such as: Zerlina, Susanna, Despina, Amina. And the low notes she reaches, which are at best a A3 with good projection, are nothing special for a soprano. I think she preferred to be classified as a mezzo-soprano so she didn't have to improve her high register and use it more often. Her voice, like Joyce Didonato's voice, lacks a bit of drama. They didn't even get to play roles on stage like Carmen, who every self-respecting mezzo has sung at least once in her life.

Montserrat caballe was the greatest ever , lyric soprano with ample spinto💖💝💘

One minor correction: She is (was) Deutekom, not Duetekom (even though Duetekom might be so nice a name).

Classical male voice types?

At last. Some good examples here!

question! can a female be classified as a tenor? or is contralto the lowest?

When i was student, while studying singing, music teacher told me that katharin ferrier was most favorite singer. At that time iwas just a country girl, so i bought her LP in Tokyo. I have impressions that her voice was very deep and long breath even she was young. Unfortunately she died for canser around 40years old. she was very beautiful English lady and her dress was also elegant and more like actress. Now i understand how to release the voice with own exhale breath to make regato singing. thank you so much for your very understandable comment.

Your video is amazing, I only have two comments: the small divisions between voices are called fachs, but probably someone already told you that, and the lowest female voice I've ever heard in non-operatic music with certain technique is Lisa Gerrard's, she sings in a group called Dead Can Dance, I really suggest you could hear "Yulunga" from Dead Can Dance where she displays what I think are her lowest notes.

An effing fantastic video

Wonder what Lucia Pop would have been considered?

One problem with classifying female voices (I've read) is that women tend to have larger vocal ranges than men so there's a lot of overlap both in singers and what they can do (which changes over time) and parts whose assignments also change over time and in different places (anna in der freischutz used to be sung by mezzos in Italy, adalgisa began as a soprano role too). Mens' voices tend to fall into more discrete categories. The biggest differences for women are less in tessitura but in power and timbre and the contralto, mezzo, soprano distinction seems less than completely useful. It seems weird for Nilsson and Gruberova (for example) to be in the same category (though the idea of them sharing roles is..... weird) while Tebaldi and Simionato (who both sang Santuzza) are in different categories.

I loved it all!

HallEstein ?

I think Cristina Deutekom is a Soubrette, and she retired with her beautiful young voice even with a high D on her last years of career

Yma sumac ♥

So stupid classification and choice

Wonderful examples.